Library and Knowledge Management Internship

About the role

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is seeking three interns to support its Dynamic Knowledge and Library Team within the Global Operations Division. Interns will work on the Human Rights Knowledge Gateway, contribute to research, and help develop content for the OHCHR intranet and knowledge hub. The positions are open for candidates with library, data‑science, or communications/knowledge‑management profiles.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in daily management of the OHCHR Library, including cataloguing, indexing, digitisation, and responding to reference queries.
• Support the development and maintenance of the Human Rights Knowledge Gateway and thematic knowledge hubs.
• For communications‑focused interns: organise knowledge‑sharing events, produce multimedia materials, edit website content, and update intranet resources.
• For data‑science‑focused interns: automate classification and tagging of library assets, extract structured information from documents, and develop tagging workflows.

Required profile

• Enrolled in a graduate programme (Master’s or higher) or in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree in library science, information science, knowledge management, human rights, law, international relations, or a related field.
• Fluency in English; knowledge of French is an asset, and additional UN official languages are a plus.